Performing Korea

Patrice Pavis is Professor in the School of Art of the University of Kent, UK. Formerly a professor in Paris and Seoul, he has taught at universities across the globe. Publications include Theatre at the crossroads of Culture (1992), Dictionary of the Theatre (1999), the Intercultural Performance Reader, (1996), Contemporary Mise en Scène (2012) and the Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre (2016).

Prologue. Empire of Signs.- Part I. Introduction to the examples and to the method.- Chapter 1. Theatre and Theatre research in Korea and elsewhere.- Chapter 2. Globalization in a few Korean examples.- Chapter 3. Mise en scène made in Korea.- Part II. On a few theatre productions.- Chapter 4. A few contemporary French and Korean playwrights.- Chapter 5. Questions to the Past.- Chapter 6. Moi Hye-Seok, L’indésirable.- Chapter 7. A few productions of Kim, Hyun-Tak.- Chapter 8. On Lee, Young-Seok’s production of Orwell’s Coming up for air.- Chapter 9. Is modernized Pansori political?.- Part III. On a few theatre-dance and dance performances.- Chapter 10. Woyzeck as dance theatre.- Chapter 11. A Seoul song for Hong Sehee.- Chapter 12. Self-Portrait.- Part IV. On a few cultural performances.- Chapter 13. Parody in K-pop.- Chapter 14. Flowers and tears.- Chapter 15. A Fall.- Epilogue. Chapter 16. A Foreign Spectator?